flopping [
'flɔpiŋ]
贬调
- The pile of books flopped noisily onto the floor.
那摞书劈里啪啦地散落到地上. - Despite all the publicity, her latest novel was a complete flop.
她的最新小说尽管广为宣传, 结果还是彻底失败.
Flop \Flop\ (fl[o^]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flopped} (fl[o^]pt);
p. pr. & vb. n. {Flopping}.] [A variant of flap.]
1. To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail,
etc.; to flap.
2. To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat. [Colloq.]
--Fielding.
- White got the award for Wheely Bad Acting for her role in NBC's "The Goddess of Love." The Saddest Sight was sitcom hall-of-famers Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore flopping in their latest comeback attempts, the magazine said.
- Bush's flips and shifts prompted Washington Post political cartoonist Herblock to depict him as a gaunt figure atop a weathervane, flopping one way then the other, a finger jutting up to catch the shifting winds of public opinion.